JFK Assassination: The Raleigh Call Source Documents -- Investigator's call to John David Hurt

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Investigator's Report on Telephone Call to John David Hurt

Dr. Grover B. Proctor, Jr.
SOURCE DOCUMENT COLLECTION EDITOR

Editor's Note: This is a summary of a telephone call made in September 1968 by an investigator on the east coast to a man who identified himself as "John Hurt" at the telephone number found on Mrs. Treon's Dallas jail phone slip. (This investigator's identity is being withheld for privacy reasons.) This summary was made in the form of a letter to attorney Bernard ("Bud") Fensterwald, Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, who released it to me. Accompanying it was a three-page biographical outline of John David Hurt, made by the same investigator. Both of these documents were turned over to the House Select Committee on Assassinations ten years later. The letter is reproduced here exactly as it was typed at the time, with spelling errors and idiosyncratic spacing in tact. -- G.Proctor

Sept. 9, 1968

Bud,

The following is the substance of a telephone conversation
I had with John Hurt on September 6, 1968 which I described
to you immediately afterwards by 'phone.

I identified myself as "Gene" and when he said he was trying
to place me I said, "Edgar Eugene Bradley". He th4n indicated
that he knew me and I mentioned West Parish. He said, " You
mean West Carroll" From then on we just rambled on as though
we were old friends. He said that he hadn't been back there
since his parents died but that Aunt Edith was still there as
well as a couple of old friends. I asked him if he ever heard
from Gonzalez and Gordon and he said, "Were they in jail with
me then?" I said they were and he said' "Oh yes, the little
Mexican, and who was the other guy. " I said that Gordon was
a bartender and he pretended to remember him. He said that
Gonzalez had been in so many jails that he couldn't remeber
tem all.

Hurt went on to tell me all about his arrest in Raleigh
while driving on a one-way street with an opened bottle of
Jack Daniels Green Label and that he has had several con-
tinuances because his lawyer thinks the arresting officer
has drank or lost the evidence he took from him and they're
trying to stall 'til they can feel certain its gone. He
felt certain that if they can stall long enough some of those
cops will get rid of it and then he will get a dismissal.
His lawyer is as Negro named Sam Mitchell who was an Assist-
ant Judge.

He rambled on at great length about directions for me to get
to his house and I told him I was in Woodbridge Va. and would
probably drive on down toRaleigh th next day. He invited me
to stay with him and the "old lady" and said they were still
drinking and fighting together. He said that "those Kennedy
boys always got him in trouble" It was when John got killed
that he got in jail in Louisiana and when Bobby got killed
he was jailed in Raleigh.

I told him that it was a one-way street that got me into
trouble on that gun charge; that I was driving the wrong
way on a one-way street when I got stopped and they found
the guns. He said, " Oh yes, I think I heard about that.
When does your case come up." I told him Octobet 4th. He
asked about my lawyer and recommended his ( Mitchell).

I told him I would see him the next day or Sunday and that
concluded the conversation.

[signed with first name of investigator]

Dr. Grover B. Proctor, Jr. is a historian and former university Dean who is widely acknowledged as an expert on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He has published numerous articles, lectured extensively, and has frequently been consulted by print and broadcast media.
While most of his work comprises analysis and interpretation of the assassination research phenomenon, he broke new ground in the investigation in the early 1980's with his work on Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged telephone call from the Dallas jail to a former military counterintelligence agent in Raleigh, N.C.

These documents have been collected and are being shared purely as an educational service to benefit historians and researchers who have an interest in this subject matter. Use of all materials is intended to fall under the "public domain" and/or "fair use" protection of U.S. copyright law, and they are reproduced for no purpose that involves monetary gain

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